Friday 10/25/24
It has been very difficult to keep going. I've really had to fight not to give in to things over the past few days.
I finished "Words of Rain," which will become a part of There Is No Doubt: Story Girls. The story is 1200 words long and it took me nearly six months to do. No one is going to have anything to compete with this story. I'd say that it was difficult to write in the sense of how much it asked of me, on the one hand, and how much I gave it, on the other. The process of finding it was one of several different component, adjustments, restarts, new starts. An extended, multi-part process.
The site is an incomplete, messy disaster, which needs huge amounts of work, if not a restart somewhere else on a different platform. It is taking everything I have just to write and run stairs right now, so I don't do anything about the site. There's the time that will be involved, the energy, and likely the cost. I don't face it but I need to face it, but then I tell myself it doesn't matter if I do because nothing matters anyway given that there's nothing that can be done or could make a difference. I did update the News section, though, for the first time in months yesterday. I'm not sure I got everything in there, but I think I did. What's there isn't what should be there. It should be completely different.
I wrote a film piece today. I'm writing another one now.
I'm supposed to go to a screening of Bride of Frankenstein today, then the MFA, then a Paul Lewis Schubert recital at Jordan Hall.
The World Series starts tonight. Normally I have a prediction for these things and normally those predictions are pretty good, but I think this is an evenly matched affair. The Dodgers should be better, but they've had injuries. The Yankees will need something from Aaron Judge. Also, Gerrit Cole. He could be the difference in the series, one way or the other. I guess I'll take the Yankees. But that would mean them winning it on the road in LA.
I think there's a chance Jim Montgomery is going to be fired as the Bruins coach sooner rather than later.
I sent the kids their Halloween card. It came out really well. My plan to write the Little Ghost Girl's personal note to Amelia with my off-hand produced what I feel was a very ghostly effect. I drew a little pumpkin, which as my mother opined, represents the apotheosis of my drawing talents. She said she was surprised I could do it. So was I, frankly. I can't draw anything. Having drawn this pumpkin, I needed something else to go in a similar space and I thought, "What about a ghost?" before admitting that was beyond my capabilities, as was a black cat, which was more out of the question, so I just made another pumpkin and sort of gave it different shaped eyes--or at least one of them--and a mouth. In the photo below, there's an edge of sunflower, a book of ghost stories, and portion of doormat that was made by a girl up on Cape Ann from rope that had afflicted right whales, so that was her way of keeping it out of the water.
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